Thill-coupling



(No Model.)

F. E. GOLDSMITH.

THILL COUPLING.

Patented Feb.27, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK E. GOLDSMITH, OF JAOKSONBOROUGH, OHIO.

THlLL-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 273,064, dated February 27, 1883.

- Application filedDecember 23, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK E. GOLD- "SMITH, of Jacksonborough, in the county of the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved thill-coupling. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the same, and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to thill-couplings and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the thill-iron, the inner end of which forms a slotted eye, B, through which the bolt 0 passes, which rests in bearings l), which may be made in one with the clip E, or may be fastened to it. The clip E is of the usual construction, and is fastened around the axletree F. One of the screw-threaded ends, G, of the clip passes through an eye, It, in the end ofa curved spring, H, which is held fast between the shackle I and a nut, J. The other end by which the spring is pressed back when the thill-iron is raised. A stud, L, projects from the concave part of the end of spring H into the slot M in the eye B, and into a hole, N, bored inrthe bolt 0. This stud holds the bolt fast without nuts, and the spring prevents rattling of the thills, while it holds the bolt in 5 against the spring, the bolt inserted and turned.

till the stud L snaps into the hole in the bolt.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 7 1. In a thill-coupling, the combination of the bolt 0, having the hole N, with the curved spring H, having stud L, projecting through the slotted eye B into the hole N, holding the bolt fast, substantially as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. In a thill-coupling, the thill-iron A, having slotted eye B, bearings D, bolt 0, having hole N, spring H, having eye h, lip K, and stud L, clip E, having nuts J, and axle-tree F, all constructed and combined to operate substantially as shown and set forth. I

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK E. GOLDSMITH.

Witnesses CHARLES E. BIGKMORE, DAVID FLENNER. 

